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Lot 490*

An Unusual German 25-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun With Pen-And-Ink Decoration
By Blasius Sailer In Ehingen, Circa 1830

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual German 25-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun With Pen-And-Ink Decoration
By Blasius Sailer In Ehingen, Circa 1830

With two-stage barrel with silver fore-sight centred on an inlaid silver starburst, turned girdle retaining traces of gilding, octagonal breech numbered '5' in silver and signed in inlaid silver script along the top flat between scrolling silver foliage, engraved and gilt tang, signed border engraved flat lock with engraved safety-bolster acting against a roller, figured half-stock inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and foliage along the fore-end and on each side of the butt, chequered grip and fore-end heightened with numerous silver pins, the areas opposite the lock, on the raised cheekpiece and on the opposite side of the butt inlaid with shaped boxwood panels within silver wire borders and decorated with pen-and-ink landscape scenes of angling and boar hunting, set with small silver-gilt panels on each side of the barrel tang and carved in relief with an owl behind the trigger-guard tang, carved boxwood mounts comprising butt-plate with further boar hunting scene, trigger-guard with stag hunting scene on the bow and foliage involving a dog's mask on the tang, turned ramrod-pipes decorated en suite, iron sling loop, single silver ramrod-pipe, and original ramrod with pen-and-ink decorated boxwood tip (some wear overall)
91.6 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a very rare double-barrelled breech-loading percussion gun by the same maker and sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour featuring the Plaut Collection, 1 April 2004, lot 183

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